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Cory Booker May Not Want To, But Robert Reich Goes Right Ahead And Indicts Private Equity

May 22, 2012 11:04 pm
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Democrat Cory Booker may not want “to sit here and indict private equity” like that once run by Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, but a former Labor secretary was more than happy to take that plunge. Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., stirred up a firestorm Sunday by appearing on national TV to seemingly undercut President Obama’s attacks on the way Romney handled his time at the head of private-equity firm Bain Capital. However, Robert Reich, the Clinton-era Labor...

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Latest Political Standoff: Violence Against Women Act

May 18, 2012 10:28 am
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Although they’ve become famous for their use of obstruction and the filibuster to kill Democratic legislation in recent years, congressional Republicans increasingly appear to be using a different tactic to thwart Democrats: the political standoff. It works like this: the Senate approves some key piece of legislation on a bipartisan basis, but House Republicans simply ignore the bill and pass a version of their own. The GOP then demands the Senate discard its own bill and pass the House version instead. It...

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President Vows To Fight For His Jobs Act: ‘I Will Not Take No For an Answer’

October 13, 2011 11:11 am
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Senate Republicans may have tried this week to kill President Obama’s American Jobs Act, but the president refuses to let his $447 billion legislative package die quietly. The president’s re-election campaign late Wednesday released an email to supporters that included a video message from Obama himself, in which he vowed to keep fighting. The email, signed by campaign manager Jim Messina, notes that although the American Jobs Act failed to get the 60 votes in the Senate required to...

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